skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Obvious" solution that is simple, clear, and wrong
Most SO answers are clarifying a niche implementation detail or gotcha of a programming language, troubleshooting someone's build configuration, etc. If an LLM trained on that info and later helped someone solve their problem by spitting out an answer, I don't see who was discouraged, nor do I think any "ideas" were "stolen."

You don't go to SO to crowdsource creative ideas. It's for very specific one-off questions that many people will likely find themselves asking at some point.
>I guess the real question is how to increase voter turnout.

Better candidates.
There's a corollary I use with respect to ML

You don't need math to train good models.
You do need math to know why your models are wrong.
I'm re-reading Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine" at the moment. It's about Data General and the development of a new minicomputer. I read it at the dawn of my IT career in the 1990s and found much of was still relevant then. (the book was written in 1981) Thirty years later, I'm mostly just nodding as I follow along; yep, yep, yep. "Engineering" is a distant second to corporate politics and office pecking order.

Reading Brian Shul's "Sled Driver" autobiography on the tablet. Shul was an SR-71 pilot, and the book is about 10% Shul and 90% SR-71. It reads fast and it's interesting, with unexpected bits of information.

Just finished David Goggins' "Can't Hurt Me." It's supposed to be a "motivational" autobiography. I can't say I felt motivated. Most of his problems were self-inflicted, and he treated his family and children like dirt.
Wasn't expecting to see Cinco here so soon.
I don't intend to convince you or get convinced. To me, the answer depends on the purpose of the question.

I'm curious now instead why you'd grant rights to entities that don't have an "I". Isn't that pointless? Or is it a mistake on my part, i.e. maybe there's no "I" but there's still a "you"?

In the "you" case, do you think the thought experiment could be reframed as an attempt at answering the question "where is the you?"?
If it's damp wool is one of the best things you can wear
I guess the problem is it’s hard to identify which half.
They are cheap. 100 years ago it was cheaper to have a full time cleaner than have a car. Now it's the other way round, and with cars a million times better than the ones back then.

I'm not saying they're cheap compared to free. I'm saying they're cheap compared to what you get. 100 years of competition has made cars exceptional.
Israel could nuke Gaza and kill most of Hamas.

Presumably we all agree that's unacceptable.

So somewhere between "zero collateral civilian casualties" and "all collateral civilizian casualties" is warranted.

Which leads to a debate about where the line should be.
I couldn't find a list of "eligible charges", also that doesn't seem to mean advance payment would be the only payment option so I couldn't be billed and the service would just stop.. did I miss anything?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectric...
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Title doesn't reflect the article's title (emphasis mine): "Andreessen Horowitz investor says half of Google's white-collar staff probably do 'no real work'"

Without "probably", it sounds like he has insider information and can say it as a fact. With "probably", it shows that this is an educated, yet falsifiable opinion.
Sorry, just was reminding of this convo by some poetry and wanted to circle back. Was winter hiking inspired by Goete, or just your own shall we say "habitude", for that peak would seem easier with feathers for warmth, and wings for ascent? (if Lämmergeier can carry away whole lambs, do Roßtrappe make off with whole horses?)
Whereas VC and private equity staff all "work"...
That’s an interesting thesis.

I know recruitment firms serve some of the phone screen purpose you’re proposing, but just with basic Q/A of resumes.

I think, if I were looking to hire you, I’d be wondering how alike your working style was to that of me and my team. I’d want to know how much I could trust your judgment in a candidate’s technical approach.

I’d also offer that you can’t really outsource the job of evaluating cultural fit - which is still really important in spite of all the baggage that term carries.
For the verbal phenomenon, I think that is just a symptom of human brain function. Only a small amount of processing is conscious verbalisation, so you will need to talk about new things while your subconscious processes other ones.

As for online, I think the idea of threads is obviously antithetical to the concept of linear discussion. When you organise things as a tree, you present the many branches as though each is a valid target for a new entry. If you want things to be discussed linearly, you must present that discussion linearly. This linear discussion is feasible only in text, as you have time to think something over before verbalising it.
You sort of have that already in the US for health, its tied to your insurance and its called max out of pocket. Of course it only applies to covered services, and insurance companies and medical providers don't necessarily make it simple to know what is and is not covered (though it IS improving).

If you plan on seeking medical services without going through insurance, the ACA requires providers to provide you with a good faith estimate upfront.
Few days later, but it seemed most natural to post this here - I created a little cheat sheet of all the available options. It lets you copy the relevant character to your clipboard upon clicking it, which is helpful for some of the oddball characters you might not have on your keyboard.

https://epiccoleman.com/posts/2024-05-05-teranoptia-cheatshe...
>I don't understand why x-day free trials haven't been replaced with usage-based free trials.

Hmm I would say usage-based free trials are problematic because a small company might only use it 10 times but an enterprise might need to run 10k files to fully trial the product. So what usage level would you set it at? If you go too high the small companies can be on a free trial for years, effectively a freemium model.
Right now, in CA, Costco is $0.60 cheaper than surrounding stations.

Per gallon? Wow, I grant that I haven't comparison shopped in years, but you're getting more of a break than we did in WA when I was looking. I'm serious when I say that there was about a nickel's difference. Perhaps I should take another look at the price signs next time I'm there. Because, yeah, I'd sit in line for $6 (on a ten gallon fillup).
I imagine this guy doesn’t do much real work himself.
It's a good book, but I've read it a few years ago and already forgot most of it. I gather you need to refresh this knowledge just before you negotiate.
That’s a requirement if you build European energy grade A+++ house (which is a minimum in LT) - can’t just be pulling warm air out and replacing with cold one (idk maybe an HRV can compensate for it).
People in glass houses...
I see a lot of anger on this thread, from you and others, and am just surprised. I didn't expect it on HN.

I for one am very much in favor of the idea of the public domain (or CC, or the Open Source movement, or SO's license). Paraphrasing the Voltairean principle, I might not like what OpenAI or others do with my limited contributions to the world's knowledge base, but I would defend to the death everyone's right to do whatever they want with it.
How many Seattle people have even heard of Seattle dog? There should be beecher's cheese, teriyaki, and probably a fish and chips place.
What can you pull to stop acceleration and brake tracking?
> "Another issue with all the 'BS' jobs in large corporations is that it takes profits away from shareholders who are most often the pensioners and retirement accounts of the rest of America," he said. "...they are also taking money away from the rest of the workforce's retirement programs."

Oh no, think of the poor retired shareholders!
Not to mention security compliance. If you can afford all of that, seems pretty likely you'll also have SOC2/etc needs. Being able to "ignore" the whole physical security aspect of that stuff is a huge benefit of the cloud.
> It's too difficult for customers to organize a protest in a way that will influence that business's decision-making.

It's actually very easy (in theory). You (vote for someone who will) ban fraudulent and anti-competitive behavior, sue the offenders and have them pay huge fines. The fact that this very rarely works out is a failure of the political system.
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No one uses the DOM because they think it’s the best possible GUI technology. They build software for browsers because browsers are the lowest common denominator for distribution, which is far, far more important than technical considerations most of the time. And because of that, there’s also a large ecosystem of well understood, well documented, widely used, beginner-friendly tools for it, ranging from jQuery to React to Tailwind to WordPress.

We can talk all day about how there are better ways to do it, but until you solve the distribution problem, the technology doesn’t matter. Mobile apps sort of solved it, but even then, the bar for installing an app is higher than the bar for clicking on a link. Plus there are cross-platform tech and policy differences to deal with, you can’t guarantee your users are running the same version of the app, etc.
Education as a domain has identified key performance metrics for teacher evaluation and has come up with a method of collection they can point to which always results in useful data.

It's also an expensive and time-consuming process. You're either burning a stack of money because you absolutely need that info, or a slightly smaller stack to cook the books in full view of people who understand statistics way more than you do.
A few years ago I worked at a company that let people bring in dogs and I hated it. I actually like dogs and have had some myself (although not at that time), but one of my team members always brought in his huge rescue pitbull. It was always under control, never barked or lunged, but it liked to sit perfectly still, alert and upright giving me a death stare for hours at a time. All I could think was "this dog is probably not going to do anything, but if it snaps it could probably maim me in an instant."

How can I focus on work under circumstances like that? But how can I complain when it hasn't actually done anything yet? I would be "that guy." Now dog policy is something I pay attention to when choosing jobs.
I wouldn't call it "anti-competitive fear mongering" when one player in the market can rely on a virtually guaranteed income (you'd have to be homeless to avoid the Rundfunktbeitrag) while newspapers, private TV and radio have to fight for survival. ARD and ZDF buying and thus supporting the insane amounts that some sport events cost in license fees doesn't do FIFA and IOC any good as scandals of recent years have shown. Carlos Nuzman who ran the 2016 games got 30 years for his corruption schemes.
> Like the U.S. Government prints it and spends it, so its not clear to me that there is a balance sheet of cash being someone elses debt.

The US government prints it (“quantitative easing") by creating new money and buying its own debt. In this sense it’s still correct to say this Government printed money is backed by debt.

Nb. That this is only a small proportion of the overall money supply though. Commercial bank deposits (created through bank lending) represent the vast majority.
California gets a lot of flack for having too much regulation, but this change is very welcome for consumers.

No more junk fees in CA.

- https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/sf-restaurants-junk-fees...
Here's a couple. I searched for nyse display and china stock market display. There's a lot of examples when you do those searches.

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-JH281_0708NY_M_...

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/A14FJ5/a-screen-with-the-market-sh...

You can also do a text search for china red green stocks, or japan red green stocks.

Bonus fun fact: If the little display on the taxi in japan is red, that means available, and green means occupied.
I think we should still take notice that polls can be manipulated and we have to be careful with the wording. Also people are prone to agreeing to good sounding abstract things but then disagreeing and voting or acting in another way when it comes down to it.
Used ones are back down to about $16k. Over 6 years that's around $10/day for wheels.
> Sensors in the car + normal traffic pattern analysis based on where you go

That seems quite different to what they're claiming in the article, though? Presumably many services (e.g. Google Maps) could have the same accusation levelled at them, and far more, because people don't use cars to go everywhere.

> The sensors in the car have been capable of identifying a person by their fingerprint for a long time, and I have to imagine that has only improved

Do you mean if I get in a random car it can tell who I am, or if I get in the car it knows it's seen those fingerprints before and they're allowed to drive the car?
because old people don't matter?
It's a non-trivial security fix with an entirely new architecture.
> It might not be derived entirely from their cars

I'm struggling to see how any of it could be derived from cars.
Would it apply to a personal website run by a human with no profit motive if it's "open to the public"? That would be very nasty.

I'm all for accessibility and all my sites can be easily read by screen readers and nvaigated by the blind/etc. But if this law means violent force can be used against me if I make a website that is not accessible it would be terrrible.
Putting together a promo packet is hard work!
You need to open a window to make up for extractor. I also shut off HRV so it doesn’t spread fumes around the house.
Having tried the demo, I can now say that it is a very confusing way to lay out content.
> Not only were people with two copies of the APOE4 gene much more likely to develop the biological changes that lead to Alzheimer’s disease, similar to people with the other genetic forms of the disease, they were almost assured the diagnosis: Nearly 95% of the people in the studies with two copies of the APOE4 gene had the biology of Alzheimer’s disease by the time they were 82 years old.
It's no longer "harmless fun" once it escapes containment, such as by editing map from an external service.
> And in any case, as much as I normally embrace FOSS, Rogue Amoeba makes high quality software that's worth paying for, so I'm not champing at the bit to replace them.

I tried really hard to get my desired audio setup to work with stock Mac OS features, but it was just... not good.

I have two Apple Monitors flanking both sides of a larger display with terrible speakers. I wanted to split left/right between the two Apple monitors. With Audio Midi Setup, I got it to work, but then I couldn't adjust the volume with the soft keys.

I installed Loopback and Soundsource. Everything just worked, and it was very easy to configure. The price was a little high, but I'm not really the target customer. Was worth it to not have to put bulky speakers on my desk.
if you have function like

"public intd Test()
{
... typing new line
}"

then you will not provide hints when writing that new line due to "intd" being invalid type?
> The company has spent billions and billions of dollars per year on projects that go nowhere for over a decade

Isn’t Google pretty open that it doesn’t expect most of these to succeed?

This statement has “shut down the R&D as it doesn’t make money” vibes.
My 8yo partially dislikes Geronimo Stilton books because they're "too old" (they started in 2000s and are now mostly done publishing the new ones). The books you mentioned were from mid-20th century :)
Understood, but the article is saying that the car can tell these things. Of course someone can tell - presumably Visa could do it. I'm wondering why cars in particular, and how they could do it.
Hah! I guess technically I have no weeds either, regardless of what my neighbors may think. :)
Communication costs scale super-linearly with organization size, as does the cost of mistakes. I think a twitter warrior saying some portion of a massive company's engineers 'Do No Real Work' is just a lazy way to get headlines. Throwing shade at the issue isn't novel, but solving it is really, really hard.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promises that GPT-5 will be smarter than the GPT-4
Silly Americans, you don't win a war of the mind by bringing guns to school
I would suggest that with "investor" and "probably" in the title it's more or less just the mumblings of a crank.
This attitude is why private equity is destroying US companies. The hubris and ignorance of investors routinely gets translated into a cull of workers whose jobs they don't understand, leaving behind "lean" organizations that retain only whatever bits are currently most profitable but are less functional, resilient, sustainable, and humane.
"Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment" Hah, who exactly did they contact at Google to ask if half their staff are doing nothing useful?
I think they are using community to refer to F/OSS projects as a monolithic entity, rather than a million separate and often competing and disagreeing fiefdoms that have always had issues with toxic assholes worming their way into too much power.
Is it the most low-cost computer interface?
It's the "when you look for things, look where they are". A stunning approach to R&D.

Maybe Google needs to invest in crystal balls?
Instead of a long post like that I wished they had a realistic example I could experiment with.
It's definitely healthier for me because I just throw it out after.
Interested viewers may enjoy a somewhat more historical treatment in the BBC's "Breaking the Code", a 1996 made-for-TV movie starring Derek Jacobi.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115749/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udW0j96vAOk
Just breathing your own farts all day
Learning about Mappers and Packers was quite helpful for dealing with packers at work. That bit of knowledge made it almost trivial to keep them happy.

https://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/r0/Day1.htm...
The government creates money by spending, but most money is actually created by commercial banks when people take out loans. ALL money is accounted for in these ledgers. So consequently, most money in people's deposit accounts is debt, either their own or someone else's.

I recommend reading the Bank of England's Money Creation in the Modern Economy

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...
> It's interesting to know that there's a special kind of balsamic vinegar that I've probably never tasted.

If Francesco Aggazzotti, the person who invented the modern recipe for traditional balsamic vinegar, which is the basis for the PDO standard, is elitist regarding the proper way to make his family recipe traditional balsamic vinegar is a claim that could be made. I don’t know how you could say that he’s wrong to do so without tasting it, however. You’re dismissing the whole basis for the DPO standard out of hand.

> But even if that's amazing, I still enjoy the balsamic vinegar I can get in the supermarket, and that's what almost everyone means when they say 'balsamic vinegar'.

I’m not trying to yuck your yum, here. I like what you like, too. I’m arguing for truth in advertising and labeling, so that counterfeit, fake, and adulterated products are eliminated from the market. I think there should be a finer distinction between balsamic vinegars that are made to essentially no standard with added wine vinegar and a single and/or non-wooden barrel, and balsamic vinegars made in other regions and countries in a traditional-compatible production process: Trebbiano and Lambrusco grape musts aged in a battery of multiple wooden barrels for at least 12 years.

The Wikipedia page for traditional balsamic vinegar has a helpful chart that further explains the differences in the production process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_balsamic_vinegar

I think the DPO TBV and BVM standards have been largely helpful for consumers, and I think that better labeling standards for the types of grapes and aging process in other countries would help. The market has selected for a variety of different price points consumers find palatable.

The point of TFA is that consumers really don't know what they’re missing when it comes to traditional balsamic vinegar. I happen to believe we could go a long way toward replicating the aspects that make traditional balsamic vinegar possess a unique flavor profile in other grape growth regions while retaining the same traditional production methods. The author of TFA seems somewhat skeptical on this due to their effusive praise of traditional balsamic vinegar, but I think if the real thing is so good, it’s at least worth trying. As someone who likes balsamic vinegar myself, I think we both could agree it’s at the very least worth trying traditional balsamic vinegar for ourselves so we know what the brouhaha is all about, and so we know whether or not the distinction has a difference to us, personally.

I think it’s okay to appreciate the finer things in life, and I don’t think that pointing out that finer things exist makes one elitist: it’s just a matter of perspective, preference, and taste. That’s my point, basically.
video presentation https://youtu.be/s_5mDDUFp6E
It seems like an enhancement of some parts of email threads rather than a reinvention: replies are identified by where they're rooted rather than a subject; a "concluded" metadata bit is present to at-a-glance delineate stale threads from completed ones; tree structure is enforced by the platform rather than the users following a plain-text convention re: top-posting and quoting; contribution, reply reading, and tree browsing all happen in a single place without involving transmission asynchrony or email clients (which mailing-list-all-the-things zealots probably do not consider an enhancement, but which history indicates most people prefer).
The pdf should show them as bold. I’ll see how to add the highlights to the markdown and html. Hard for text (maybe use * around each?)

You can share the link as it contains the list of timestamps corresponding to your highlights.

So others or yourself can see them again.
Lila: A Lil Interpreter in Posix Awk
The Incerto by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Sir David Attenborough Gives a Lesson on Seeds [video]
Well, all the infra people did this too, just earlier.
The AI Music Era Is Here. Not Everyone Is a Fan
> Only infrequently is there a download problem. But if you are unable to download from your present location, please send me an e-mail (with your e-mail address clearly indicated), and I will send you, as an e-mail attachment, the same Nukefix program that would normally be downloaded.

> It would be helpful if you could include a very short description of the difficulty you had. Thanks.

http://www.nukefix.org/help1.html